Pen.



No. 763,517. P'ATENTED'JUNE 28,1904.

H. W. STONE.

PEN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29, 1903. N0 MODEL.

C Q 4 I j d Z7 6 d witnesses. Inventor.

760M Harry6d8ione. EH 4 UNITED STATES Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT FFICE.

HARRY W. STONE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ARTHUR A. WVATERMAN,OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, AND WILLIAM Gr. FRAZER AND HOBART W.GEYER, OF. NEW YORK, N. Y.

PEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,517, dated June 28,1904.

Application filed August 29, 1903. Serial No. 171,313. (No model.)

To ctMw/wm it may concern:

Be itknown thatI, HARRY W. STONE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the city of New York, county of Kings, andState of New York, have invented an Improvement in Pens, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention consists in an improved construction of pen, and has forits object the provision of a pen adapted for the purpose of manifoldingor writing duplicates, but which may also be employed for other usefulpurposes as well.

It has heretofore been customary in the construction of manifolding-pensto provide especial strength or extra stiffening for the pennibs, sothat the pen-points would not spread under heavy pressure. Such pens arebut little adapted for other use than manifolding, owing to theirexcessive rigidity, nor can they be satisfactorily used over ordinary orpoor pa' per by reason of their failure to glide thereon.

By the use of my invention a pen may be constructed suitable formanifolding, yet of sufficient flexibility for ordinary use as well.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View ofa pen looking downward uponthe convex face thereof. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3is a view looking upward at the concave pen-face. Fig. 4 is an end viewlooking toward the pen-point. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail of thepen-point.

In the drawings, the pen a may be of any suitable material or shape andis provided with means for giving the pen-nibs a certain flexibility, asa slit 6, preferably of the shape shown, which causes the nibs to yieldwhen the pen is in use, but which, however, does not pass through thepen-point itself to divide the same into two separable portions, as iscustomary, but terminates at some position 0 a little above or short ofthe point, so that the pen-point d is therefore a solid unseparatedunyielding piece, and being incapable of spreading is suitable formanifold-work.

Referring to Fig. 3, preferably beneath the solid unseparated portion ofthe pen-point is provided a small duct or groove 0, which is hereinshown somewhat exaggerated in size, but is preferably of such a lengthand shape that the groove will be in contact with the paper in anyposition of the pen when in use, and will therefore provide afree-feeding duct from the slit 6 to the pen-point and the paper. In thedrawings I have illustrated an ordinary gold pen, and the groove isshown as just cutting through the iridium welded to the under portion ofthe pen-point and as passing upward through the extreme tip of thepoint; but it is of course to be understood that my invention is notlimited to the specific character of pen herein shown or thefeeding-duct described.

By theuse of the partially-slitted pen I obtain a pen having its nibstied together at their eXtremities thus giving a sufiicient firmness atthe point for manifolding purposes, and at the sametime an elasticity inthe pen-nibs themselves, thus adapting the pen to purposes of generalutility as well.

I It will be obvious that my invention illustrated in the specificembodiment herein is in no wise limited to the specific device shown anddescribed, but that the same is capable of wide variation therefromwithout departing from the true spirit ofthe invention.

I claim- 1. A pen provided withanib portion of elastic material havingpartially-separated nibs and an inseparable point.

2. A pen having a nib portion of elastic material and provided with aninseparable point to give firmness for manifolding purposes, and a slitextending from the vicinity of said point toward the pen-shank, toprovide flexibility for ordinary purposes of use.

8. A pen having an unyielding point for manifolding purposes andyielding nibs for purposes of general use.

4:. A pen provided with an elastic-nib portion and having an inseparablepoint, a slit extending part way toward the point, and afeeding-ductconnectingthepen-point andsaid of the material written uponfor all usual slit. angles at which said pen may be held.

5. A pen having an inseparable point pro- 6. A pen providedwithayielding separated Vided With a tip of relatively hard material nibportion and an unseparated tip portion. 5 5 welded or otherwise suitablysecured thereto, In testimony whereoflhave signed my name a separatednib portion and a feeding-duct tothis specification in the presence 0ftconnecting with said separated nib portion scribing witnesses.

and passing through the under side of said HARRY WY STONE. relativelyhard tip portion and thence upward itnessesz 10 in front of the extremepen-point to provide HUGO J. STELZNER,

thereby a feeding-duet leading to the surface WM. Gr. FRAZER. Y

